Program Manager - Saxo Bank 
Location: DK, , 
Salary range: 750000-1200000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Master's Degree
Industry: Banking
Function: Project Management

Company profile:

Job description:
Saxo Bank is looking for an experienced and successful Program Manager that can ensure that high focus programs are delivered to achieve Saxo Banks greater strategic goals.   Saxo Bank is driven by entrepreneurs on all levels – thus there is always MORE projects than is practical to be executed all at same time. Lately trend has been to drive larger strategy initiatives rather than individual projects. Strategic initiatives reporting to top mgmt. This usually results in LARGE enterprise wide programs to achieve a greater strategic goal. These programs are classified as HIGH focus, strong push for deadlines, no-room for error – ‘every-day-counts’ execution mindset. The 2015 batch of projects is about to be finalized, and we need a candidate who has Director / VP level experience from running individual large projects, to big strategic initiatives reporting to top mgmt.. Candidate MUST have earned stripes as PM during many years – so knows all core PM disciplines to a level where candidate can teach / coach less senior PMs. Also must be fully ready to take on PM’ing first hand – and get ‘hands dirty’. ‘Only constant is change’ is a saying in Saxo. Candidate must be resilient to frequent changes in tasks, organization – and simply focusing on delivering value. Candidate must be self-driven, independent and eager to come in and prove a success. A passion for success – whatever it takes.Saxo Bank puts great demands of candidate. The position has high exposure. It must be expected that candidates treat the job with appropriate priority and role-model ownership. In return Saxo Bank provides a competitive salary package + pension scheme.

Requirements:
Your profil Has a Msc (or higher) degree in Engineering or Business.Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.Knows both agile development methodologies and the more traditional PMP / Prince2.Has 8-10 years of experience working with highly complex projects within large organizational impact on all levels.Has worked the 3rd party vendors, contract negotiations, etc.Has proven track record of working on ‘next level’ projects (programs) working through PMs.Has driven large IT development projects from start to finish – full application lifecycleHas experience managing individual contributors, and first line managers, and trained in people management.Works will in an high pace organization, with an entrepreneurial mindset. Very adaptive to change.Has experience working with offshore development (preferably India).Experience in Investment banking a BIG plus.

Benefits:
We offerFirst and foremost, we offer more than just a job; being an employee in Saxo Bank is an opportunity to invest in your future. In addition, you get:A chance to join a truly growth-embracing culture, which will commit to helping you grow personally and professionallyAn opportunity to work as part of a dynamic, very ambitious and, at the same time, informal and pleasant working environmentAn attractive salary plus benefits package Further informationKontakt Partner Per Tychsen på tlf. 29927553, alternativt #EMAIL_35a682838509b61988869b97a7e33c9adf7a1fee6061fc1fc214ae642b52b842#, hvis du har yderligere spørgsmål.Vi afholder løbende interviews og målsætningen er at have den rette kandidat på plads inden udgangen af 2014.About Saxo Bank Saxo Bank IT consist of over 500 IT professionals based in Copenhagen and Delhi who, using latest technologies and agile methodologies; design, build and run the Saxo Bank award winning, global multi-asset trading platform. Our specialty is within capital markets with focus on; high reliability, large volumes, low latency and a world class, cloud-based experience for retail, institutional and white label clients.Our in-house designed and built Saxo Bank trading system handles:over 25,000 concurrent online trading clients 24 hours per day / 5,5 trading days per weekmore than 160,000 unique monthly users to our social trading portalin excess of  400,000 price feed updates per secondintraday execution and  booking of up to 900 trades per secondfrom Saxo Trader trade request received, until it is executed, booked and exposure updated in risk management system in under 15 milliseconds over 500,000 trade transactions processed daily